It’s the holiday season and Rainbow Six Siege invites all players to take part in the first ever Rainbow International Snowball Fight. For three weeks starting December 14th, players will be able to take part in the Snow Brawl and let enemy players face the fury of a perfectly targeted snowball to the head.
Carefully selected operators will be divided between two teams: The Orange Blizzards and The Blue Blades. Snow Brawl is a snowy Capture-The-Flag game mode with spawn. The match will start with flags at each team’s home base. The goal is for the players to capture the opposing team’s flag and return it to their base. Both teams will be equipped with unlimited snowballs as their main weapon in battle. The Snowblast launcher will be ready as a helper.
Rainbow Six Siege Snow Brawl event and new anti-cheat measures
Cheating has always been a plague that most competitive online games have had to deal with, but Rainbow Six Siege is one of the most competitive and therefore needs a fairly robust anti-cheat system. Ubisoft has just detailed their latest crackdown on cheating, detailing the key players in the cheating ecosystem and the data behind cheating in Rainbow Six Siege.
Key contributors to the scam ecosystem
EXPLICIT CARTONS
Whether they show no relation to gravity (fly, teleport) or go out of control to get rid of their opponents, these are the obvious scammers – the ones who have the most visible impact on the community.
HIDE CARTONS
These are cheaters who try to pass off cheats as their own skill. While they can’t cheat all the time and rarely show it, their goal is to look better than they really are and create noticeable disruption in the community.
EXCELLENT PLAYERS
Superior players can be rogues, but they can also be smurf accounts playing at lower ranks, high skill players, or mouse and keyboard players on consoles. While all of this can be frustrating in its own way, identifying real cheaters is challenging and a key part of a developer’s job.
INCREASED PLAYERS
These are players who play or use superior players or cheaters to gain faster access to higher ranks. They themselves are easily considered cheaters, as they have an unfair advantage over other players.
ACCOUNT MANAGERS
While not literally hackers, this is the name Ubisoft uses to refer to those who steal other players’ accounts and resell them. They make it easy for cheaters to access new accounts and re-enter the overall Siege ecosystem.
Total bans for cheating
- The two visible spikes since 2020 correspond to the initial phase of the pandemic in April 2020 and the end of this school year, respectively.
- On average, Ubisoft bans over 10,000 players every month for cheating.
- Since January 2021, Ubisoft has blocked over 100,000 cheaters.